Heavenly Empress Decree
"They are called the Star Piercing Heavenly Palace for a reason, Martial Nephew... Sigh, just what have you done?" The middle-aged man added. At this point, it no longer matters where to escape, no one can escape the archery skills of the Yin Yang Purgatory Bow. Space-Time is just an empty phrase before its might.
However, Great Elder Han was unwilling to die, he bitterly clutched his bleeding chest and eyed his Martial Uncle with a desperate pair of eyes. An old man, giving a man who seemed to be in his mid-twenties such a look, the world of cultivation is really bizarre.
The Martial Uncle furrowed his eyebrows, he didn't get the full story, but he knew his Martial Nephew the best, he knew he must have fallen into a mishap unintentionally. With that in mind, he sighed and extracted a golden token, he then handed it over to his Martial Nephew.
"Martial Uncle... this..." Great Elder Han was flabbergasted. He didn't expect his Martial Uncle to possess a Heavenly Empress Decree token.
"Use it, I obtained it via sheer luck; I don't really need it." The middle-aged man said in a solemn tone.
"But..." Great Elder Han wanted to complain, refuse, or offer something in return. But! He had nothing of such value on him!
"No but. Use it before it's too late, it's only a matter of time before you die if you hesitate."
"..." Great Elder Han was silent for a while. He felt indescribable gratitude towards this mysterious Martial Uncle of his. And thus, without hesitation, he poured in an immense amount of his Qi into the token!
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Back inside the Ivory Cloud Heavenly Palace Domain, the Heavenly Archress frowned, she could sense the vitality of that old man billions of miles away, he seemed to linger on with his life.
She clicked her tongue in annoyance before drawing yet a second arrow, startling everyone watching, even her Master and Yue Liang!
"What? Your disciple missed? Hehe..." Yue Liang frowned, but she teased nonetheless.
"I have a bad feeling about this..." Su Tian muttered in a low voice, her beautiful eyebrows knitted. She doesn't know why, but she is feeling uneasy.
Just as the Heavenly Archress aimed her bow once more, the intangible Yin Yang Diagram once again appeared in front of her arrow's shaft, the entire void trembled!
Out of nowhere, a divine light cascaded, morphing into the image of a giant, middle-aged man endowed with a muscular frame.
He wore white robes, his body immaculate and refined, his facial features sharp and symmetrical, he also had a pair of eagle eyes. Long golden hair, jade white skin, and the most conspicuous of it all was a row of divine wings fluttering about behind him.
Nine pairs in total! Amounting to 18 wings!
Upon the arrival of this deity-like figure, a massive token with the characters 'Empress Decree' also appeared. As it did, it exuded a curtain of light that eclipsed the entire Ivory Clouds Domain, sealing the cultivation base of everyone present! Rendering them into mortals!
"This..." In the void, behind the spatial viel, both ladies were stunned silly.
What shocked them the most was that at this moment, a figure was ejected from the void, this figure looked devoid of all vitality as if he had depleted the entirety of his cultivation base!
This was Great Elder Han!
And he was placed right beside The Heavenly Archeress!
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To use the Heavenly Empress Decree, summoning the Heavenly Empress Envoy to bestow an impartial judgment on her behalf; The Empress.
This is only possible through the use of a Heavenly Decree Token, and not anyone can use it! In fact, if anyone with an insufficient cultivation base was to use it, they would disintegrate into powder!
The Heavenly Envoy looked down on the woman and the old man beneath him with an indifferent gaze, his only objective here was to project the Token of her majesty the Empress, everything else is up to her judgment.
In fact, he should have been the one to judge, but the explosion of the Phoenix Eye Sun was too grand of a phenomenon, to the point it caught the attention of the Empress. Thus, if Great Elder Han didn't use the Token, she wouldn't have allowed the initiation of a second, similar attack.
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Silence descended onto the domain like rain, no one dared move or act unruly. Not even the Heavenly Archress, regardless of the rage brewing in her every cell as she stood there.
In front of the Empress Decree Token, everyone is a mortal; insignificant ant.
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"134 small worlds, 62 medium-grade, and 5 great-grade worlds, totally annihilated. All due to the implosion of the great star; Phoenix Eye Sun. Tell me, do you know how many innocent lives of my Divine Elysium Plane have perished?"
An indifferent, yet oddly gentle voice resonated from the Heavenly Empress Decree Token. These few sentences of her's rendered everyone speechless. Everyone could link the cause, actions, and effect.
To think the main cause for the death of these billions of lives is no more than a single touch of a woman's cheek...
The voice continued, "I have been nurturing a small world, medium world, and a great world over the past one hundred thousand years. This is my judgment; Each of you will either choose a descendant from the small world or migrate your own descendants into the small world."
"However, those who descend will be mortals; even if they have knowledge about cultivation, they are prohibited from having a cultivation base. Thus, from their next generations, the small world will prosper in martial arts..."
"I don't care how many hundreds of thousands of years it will take, you two will introduce Martial Arts to that small world, and the first to produce one talent capable of instigating my Heavenly Empress Decree without the slightest drawback is spared, as, for the other party, they will take responsibility for the innocent lives of my Divine Elysium Plane."
The words of the Heavenly Empress struck like thunder. This kind of trial is fair, very fair.
If the Heavenly Archress wants to wash away her shame, she must find the unknown talent first.
If the Great Elder Han wants to survive, he needs to beat the Heavenly Archeress!
Even without a time limit from the Heavenly Empress, each of them is more impatient than the former!
Until the Heavenly Empress Decree Token has dissipated, and the Heavenly Envoy departed as well, no one dared to make a move.
However, once the cultivation base suppression was uplifted, no one dared make a move either!
That was because the ubiquitous killing intent from the Heavenly Archress encased almost the entire domain, everyone could guess her thoughts! After the relay of a Decree, killing either party is akin to slapping the face of the Heavenly Empress! The only way to resolve this hatred is by winning the favor of her majesty the Empress!
Xuan Zi Tan eyed Great Elder Han with loathing eyes brewing with disgust. She couldn't kill him; thus, she spat at his face in front of everyone.
Her spat was infused with her Qi, and he was already depleted from Qi due to the abrupt instigation of the Token, he could not avoid it!
In front of everyone, he was knocked unconscious from the spat of a woman!
After she did so, she launched her movement technique and stormed off towards the small world in question. She's a woman, she has no descendants, her only choice is to hand pick from the small world directly...